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Old 02-03-2011, 12:38 PM   #482
Yamer
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Originally Posted by photon View Post
What exactly is the modem transmitting when no computers are on? Diagnostic information? "Hello I'm Here". If it's more than kilobytes or maybe megabytes a day I'd be shocked. That's what, 0.005% of the cap?

What could your modem POSSIBLY have to say to the monitoring stuff that would take up 5GB a day?
Yeah, I don't think it was communication from the modem to shaw.

It would be interesting to know exactly how much data a modem consumes just in idle.
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